Ballyowen

8 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballyowen, from 1,965 m² to 360,016 m² (36 ha, 88.96 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 15 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Ballyowen in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 28 Aug 2020Granted (conditional)

  Permission to install 2no. agricultural entrances to create new cattle crossing

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20200998

• 13 May 2020Granted (conditional)

  Permission for extensions to existing agricultural shed to include slatted

  Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20200499

• 23 Jul 2019Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT A SILAGE PIT, CONCRETE APRONS AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20191050

• 19 May 2017Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR THE FOLLOWING; 1. CONSTRUCTION OF AN AGRICULTURAL SHED WITH

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20170615

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: Slaney River Valley SAC 000781

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ballyowen.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballyowen.

Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. Buildings: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Works at or in relation to a recorded monument need two months' written notice to the National Monuments Service (National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, section 12).

Radon

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballyowen.

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both CC BY 4.0. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.

No address of the register names Ballyowen with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.

Name

Ballyowen · Baile Eoghain

Area

1,179,712 m² (117.97 ha, 291.51 acres)

Civil parish

Kilnahue, and its townlands

Barony

Gorey

Electoral division

Gorey Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Gorey Rural electoral division: 8,365 people in 2,811 households; 62% of households own their home; 67% of homes were built since 2001; 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinacoola, Ballygarrett, Ballygullen, Glandoran Lower, Glandoran Upper, Kilnahue

Placenames

Ballyowen on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. Census 2022, Small Area Population Statistics by electoral division, Central Statistics Office, CC BY 4.0. A townland is the smallest land division of Ireland, and the unit of a rural address; old registers such as the 1901 and 1911 censuses file it under its civil parish and barony.